This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... earlier than has been generally supposed. Walpole is wrong in saying he was never formally appointed King's painter till Charles I.'s reign (see Sainsbury's Original Papers, p. 355-7). A portrait of Gondomar was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in 1866; it was inscribed with the date 1621, and his age, 54. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... earlier than has been generally supposed. Walpole is wrong in saying he was never formally appointed King's painter till Charles I.'s reign (see Sainsbury's Original Papers, p. 355-7). A portrait of Gondomar was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in 1866; it was inscribed with the date 1621, and his age, 54. The one here, according to Granger, was inscribed, when he saw it in 1771, with "awrong name by some modern painter or picture cleaner." He mentions another portrait of Gondomar at Hatfield. "A piece of Gundamore, done by Blenberghe," which belonged to Charles I., was sold by the Commonwealth for 7. It re-appears in James II.'s catalogue, with the same title, but without the artist's name. 379 The Unrepentant Thief on the Cross (6pi)... P. Del Vaga. These two pieces were in Charles I.'s catalogue, page 137: --"A piece of the good thief upon the cross, who was crucified with Christ, half so big as the life, in a carved all over gilded frame, bought by the King out of Italy. The fellow piece of 378 The Repentant Thief on the Cross (69o) P. Del Vaga. the aforesaid good thief upon the cross, crucified with Christ, being the bad thief, half so big as the life," &c. On the back of each is branded Charles I.Vcypher, CR. and the crown. On wood, 4 ft. high, by 2 ft. 9 in. wide. Mrs. Jameson, writing in 1842, remarks that these two pictures are attributed to P. del Vaga, but that in the old catalogue no painter's name is given. By the Commonwealth inventory, however, we find that when they were soid on 23rd Oct. 1651 to Captain Stone for 40, they were attributed to Perm del Vaga. (See folio 207.) For a portrait of this master, see No. 821. 380 Nymphs and Satyrs and Cupids (402). Nicholas Poussin. A nymph or Ve...
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